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Can the phrase "there's no such thing as..." be used in context of time?

English Language & Usage Asked on June 18, 2021

I was wondering if the idiomatic phrase can be altered as follows…

...There's no such time as one [when/where] child rearing is easy...

I’m also uncertain which word bracketed above is more appropriate, assuming this usage even makes any sense.

One Answer

From this ngram you can see that the following words are used: place, word, person, man, passion, danger, name, fact. There is bound to be many others: the words figuring in the research are only those that are found rather often. There is no reason then to believe that "time" couldn't be used.

Here is an example with "no such time as", where time means "time period".

Targeting Maths, Nicole Bauer - 2001 - ... in a year. p An Olympic race can be won or lost in a hundredth of a second. q, Time elapsed refers to the amount of time that has passed. r The clock is a modern day invention. s 'past' is the same as * 'to'. t There is no such time as 11:11.

Answered by LPH on June 18, 2021

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